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1871 Upper Melbourne, Quebec, Canada - 1960 Upper Melbourne, Quebec, Canada. Known for: Genre, landscape and portrait painting, illustration.
Frederick Simpson Coburn was a painter, illustrator, photographer, etcher and dancer (1) who was born and died in Upper Melbourne, Quebec (about 90 miles southeast of Montreal). From about 1890 until... Read full biography
Frederick Simpson Coburn was a painter, illustrator, photographer, etcher and dancer (1) who was born and died in Upper Melbourne, Quebec (about 90 miles southeast of Montreal). From about 1890 until 1916 he lived in Europe, most of that time in Antwerp, Holland. When he returned to Canada, he... Read full biography
Frederick Simpson Coburn was a painter, illustrator, photographer, etcher and dancer (1) who was born and died in Upper Melbourne, Quebec (about 90 miles southeast of Montreal). From about 1890 until 1916 he lived in Europe, most of that time in Antwerp, Holland. When he returned to Canada, he maintained homes in Upper Melbourne and in Montreal. His mediums were oil, pastel, pencil, watercolour, graphite, crayon, photography and etching. His subjects were winter scenes, horses, logging,... Read full biography
Frederick Simpson Coburn was a painter, illustrator, photographer, etcher and dancer (1) who was born and died in Upper Melbourne, Quebec (about 90 miles southeast of Montreal). From about 1890 until 1916 he lived in Europe, most of that time in Antwerp, Holland. When he returned to Canada, he maintained homes in Upper Melbourne and in Montreal. His mediums were oil, pastel, pencil, watercolour, graphite, crayon, photography and etching. His subjects were winter scenes, horses, logging, landscapes (mostly of Quebec, however, there are some from his travels in Europe), genre, still life, portraits, figures, nudes and dancers. Starting in about 1898, under contract to Putnam Publishing (New York), he did illustrations for books, including... Read full biography
Frederick Simpson Coburn was a painter, illustrator, photographer, etcher and dancer (1) who was born and died in Upper Melbourne, Quebec (about 90 miles southeast of Montreal). From about 1890 until 1916 he lived in Europe, most of that time in Antwerp, Holland. When he returned to Canada, he maintained homes in Upper Melbourne and in Montreal. His mediums were oil, pastel, pencil, watercolour, graphite, crayon, photography and etching. His subjects were winter scenes, horses, logging, landscapes (mostly of Quebec, however, there are some from his travels in Europe), genre, still life, portraits, figures, nudes and dancers. Starting in about 1898, under contract to Putnam Publishing (New York), he did illustrations for books, including ones by Washington Irving, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning and Canadian poet Wil... Read full biography
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Keywords (40)
Art Method
- •Book Illustration
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Photography as Fine Art
Art Media
- •Charcoal
- •Colored Pencil
- •Crayon, Crayola Drawing
- •Etching, Etcher
- •Oil Paint
- •Pastel Painting/Drawing
- •Pencil, Graphite Drawing
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Impressionism, Impressionist
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Horses: Equestrian Genre, in Landscape and/or Portraits
- •Landscape
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Nude Figure, Nudity
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Snowscene, Winter Landscape
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Europe
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
Art Association
- •Pen and Pencil Club of Montreal
- •Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Elected Member
Art Teacher
- •Carl Hecker
- •Jean Leon Gerome
Art School
- •Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, Student
- •Slade School of Art, London, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Jessie Dow Prize, Montreal Art Association
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
- •Genre Specialty
- •Snowscene Specialty
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Dominion Gallery, Montreal
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Art Association of Montreal/Montreal Museum of Fine Art
Exhibition of Museum
- •National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa